Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happened that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis was away and also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider. The Acting Secretary of War was, for the moment, Brigadier General Briant Harris Wells, Deputy Chief of Staff. Perhaps it was to save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order to General Summerall, his superior in rank, that President Coolidge, who suddenly felt and announced a desire to see General Summerall, sent personally for General Summerall, with a directness that seemed almost peremptory. The General cut short his inspection tour and started for Washington. At the White House, no direct evidence...
...examination at the end of each course. There is no need for the second use one studies or flunks. One examination would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order not to place too much responsibility for doing his work on the under classman. It is probably, in the main, sound sense because the underclassman usually over estimates his own ability to absorb information in a lump at the eleventh hour...
...force him to do his work regularly, to keep complete and intelligible notes which he will be forced to read and re-read continually. He will find what the best students know any way, that he must annotate and under line his notes and perhaps summarize them in order better to organize the material so that he can keep it well in hand. The experienced student knows these things. But a Freshman or Sophomore is not an experienced student...
...other Pacific nations, export in sufficient quantities either population or goods. The conference did not, of course, explicitly recommend any way of dealing with this problem, but the various speakers tended to indorse the Japanese contention that the other Pacific peoples ought to modify their own policies in order to take care of the Japanese increase in population. If they were unwilling to accept Japanese immigrants, it was their duty to provide Japan with raw materials and to buy from her more and more manufactured products, and so help her to support her increasing population...
...picking his home, and the inhabitants of this most average of cities than selected their average citizen. One wonders what convulsions seized the place how lar the average men departed from their normaley, dressing themselves and their households in Indian costumes or resigning from all their lodges in order to avoid being singled out for national, and unaverage ame, and how one of their number was unkindly taken unawares...